After a discussion in which school administrators asked Tameka Phillips not to go to the press and to let them handle the matter internally, assistant principal Phillip Morgan offered tickets to the UniverSoul Circus.

Long-standing beefs between two groups of neighborhood kids, one from Rittenhouse, the other from Riggs Park, have compromised safety at the Northwest D.C. high school, parents and students say. Tensions led to a horrific, table-toppling melee in the school cafeteria May 5, captured on an iPhone.

The turnover in top D.C. special education leadership took another turn late Friday when Assistant State Superintendent Tameria Lewis also announced her resignation, effective June 17. It came about three hours after DCPS Deputy Chancellor Richard Nyankori confirmed his departure.

The federal judge presiding over a six-year-old special education class action suit against the District lambasted city attorneys this week for “repeated, flagrant and unrepentant failures to comply with Court orders” in handling pre-trial discovery